Sunwater Capital

News Editor

Sunwater Capital

part-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: North Bethesda • Maryland • United States

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Salary

💰 $35 - $60 per hour

About the role

  • Edit including breaking news, live blogs, enterprise pieces, newsletters, and long-form analyses.
  • Maintain and enforce style, tone, length, accuracy, grammar, and legal/policy precision across all outputs; ensure alignment with project specifications and client expectations.
  • Apply platform-specific formatting and quality standards, ensuring consistency across tiers of publication (short briefs to in-depth deep dives).
  • Optimize content for searchability and digital discoverability; assist with headlines, decks, photo captions, and multimedia alignment in collaboration with multimedia editors.
  • Vet political and policy details for accuracy; verify dates, votes, bill numbers, committee actions, and regulatory references; flag ambiguities and coordinate with subject matter experts as needed.
  • Work with the audience/strategy team to implement policy-focused audience engagement best practices.
  • Manage timely delivery of publications within budget and schedule constraints; adapt to shifting priorities and urgent deadline needs.
  • Stay current on developments in government, policy, elections, and regulatory issues; translate complex policy topics into accessible, policy-aware editorial content.
  • Perform additional duties as assigned, including rapid-turnaround edits for live-events, hearings, or breaking industry news and refine a broad range of political and policy content for multiple digital platforms.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Political Science, Public Policy, or a related field.
  • Minimum of two years of professional editing/editing-management experience, preferably in newsrooms, policy outlets, think tanks, government communications, or lobbying firms.
  • Strong policy knowledge across government, legislation, regulatory issues, and political processes; demonstrated ability to interpret and explain complex policy topics clearly.
  • Editorial excellence with proven ability to edit for style, tone, length, grammar, punctuation, and factual accuracy under tight deadlines.
  • Experience with digital publishing workflows and content management systems; familiarity with text management and desktop publishing tools.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, and related productivity software.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; highly organized with strong attention to detail.
  • Self-motivated, results-oriented, and capable of contributing effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  • Prefer candidate with a demonstrated newsroom pedigree or policy-focused editorial background, including experience with politics, policy, lobbying, or advocacy content.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
strong written communicationstrong verbal communicationorganizational skillsattention to detailself-motivatedresults-orientedcollaborativeadaptabilitytime managementcritical thinking